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Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages
and the Renaissance
General Editor
Robert E. Bjork, Arizona State University
Published by Brepols Publishers, Belgium,
this series presents collections of essays on themes of vital interest to
medieval and Renaissance Studies that are also the focus of the annual ACMRS
(Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies) Conference held in Tempe,
Arizona, at Arizona State University. The essays are both revised and expanded
versions of selected papers delivered at the conference and papers solicited
from other scholars in the field. In addition to the collections of essays,
the series will also include occasional volumes, generally on themes related
to those of the annual conferences. Send inquiries about the series
and proposals for the occasional volumes to: Robert E. Bjork, Director, ACMRS,
Arizona State University, PO Box 874402, Tempe, AZ 85287-4402 (fax: 480-965-1681;
email: robert.bjork@asu.edu).
ACMRS Conference Volumes: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 12 | 13 | 18 | 19 | 23 | 28
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This series also consists of a number of copublications between Brepols and ACMRS. These monographs are of interest to medieval and Renaissance Studies and are available in North America through MRTS and outside North America through Brepols.
Brepols/MRTS Copublications: | 9 | 10 | 11 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 24 | 25 | 26 (forthcoming) | 27 (forthcoming)
ASMAR 1: William F. Gentrup, ed. Reinventing the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Constructions of the Medieval and Early Modern Periods (1998)
The fourteen essays presented in this volume contribute substantially to the study of the reinvention of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. They take an historicized approach to constructions of the past, and most address the relatively new field of Medievalism. All of them focus on how and why the present of any period uses the past to promote its own opinions, beliefs, doctrines, or views. In particular, the volume demonstrates that reinventions of past eras or figures can be motivated by a nationalistic desire to create cultural "roots," to discover origins that justify a regime or group's self-identity, to appropriate a cultural icon or neglected author for a particular political agenda, or to reflect on contemporary social issues via a remote time and place. Reworkings or adaptations of earlier culture often tell us more about the age in which they were produced than the one revived or revisited.
John D. Niles, The Wasteland of
Loegria: Geoffrey of Monmouth's Reinvention of the Anglo-Saxon Past
Richard W. Clement, Richard Verstegan's Reinvention of Anglo-Saxon
England: A Contribution from the Continent
Anne Savage, Pagans and Christians, Anglo-Saxons and Anglo-Saxonists:
The Changing Face of Our Mythical Landscape
Daniel F. Melia, Congruent Desires: Medieval and Modern Reconstructions
of Irish and Welsh Literary Artifacts
Thomas A. Prendergast, Politics, Prodigality, and the Reception
of Chaucer's "Purse"
Kenneth J. E. Graham, Defining the "Discipline" of Reformation
Studies
Robert L. Entzminger, Jonson, the Myth of Sidney, and Nostalgia
for Elizabeth
Renée Pigeon, Gloriana Goes Hollywood: Elizabeth I on Film,
1937-1940
Paul N. Hartle, "Lawrels for the Conquered": Virgilian
Translation and Travesty in the English Civil War and Its Aftermath
Geraldine Barnes, The Fireside Vikings and the "Boy's Own"
Vinland: Vinland in Popular English and American Literature (1841-1926)
Caroline Gebhard, Agnes of Sorrento: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Medieval
Correction to Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Marble Faun
Charles Larson, Alexander Grosart's Donne and Marvell: "Glorious
Old Fellows" in the Nineteenth Century
Natalie Joy Woodall, "Women are knights-errant to the last":
Nineteenth-Century Women Writers Reinvent the Medieval Literary Damsel
Anita Obermeier, Medieval Narrative Conventions and the Putative
Antimedievalism of Twain's Connecticut Yankee
ASMAR 2: Roger Dahood, The Future of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Problems, Trends, and Opportunities for Research (1998)
The volume, containing a selection of essays from ACMRS's 1996 Conference, reflects a broad range of interests in medieval and Renaissance studies. Although most of the eleven essays address western European topics, one essay deals with Byzantine political and theological history, and one touches on Arabic poetry in medieval Sicily. The chronological range is also broad, extending from the seventh to the twentieth century and including topics from an early Byzantine polemicist to the recent growing interest in medievalism, and from critical readings of early texts to implications of computer technology for future manuscript study. In some significant ways the section continues earlier discussions of the state of the profession, such as those in William D. Paden, ed., The Future of the Middle Ages, and John Van Engen, ed., The Past and Future of Medieval Studies. More generally, this second volume in the Arizona series extends the theme of the first, "Reinventing the Past," and makes fresh contributions to the scholarship on a number of problems. If the current volume provides a reliable gauge for the future of medieval and Renaissance studies, we are on the verge of new beginnings, increasingly outward-looking, reexamining and redefining old boundaries to reach new and sharpened understanding of the past.
A Panel Discussion among Leslie
J. Workman, T. A. Shippey, Allen J. Frantzen, Paul E. Szarmach, Richard J.
Utz, William D. Paden, and Arthur F. Kinney;
Marcia L. Colish, Re-envisioning
the Middle Ages: A View from Intellectual History
Judith Barad, The Ontology of Animal Rights
Pamela Clements, Shape-Shifting and Gender-Bending: Merlin's Last
Laugh at Silence
Joan Grenier-Winthur, Lectio multiplicior, lectio potior: On the
Form and Impact of Electronic Hypermedia Editions
L. S. B. MacCoull, George of Pisidia, Against Severus: In Praise
of Heraclius
Karla Mallette, Arabic and Italian Lyric in Medieval Sicily
Richard H. Osberg, Rewriting Romance: From Sir Gawain to The Green
Knight
Curtis Perry, Inwardness as Sedition in Heywood and Marlowe
Philip M. Soergel, Portraying Monstrous Birth in Early Modern Germany
Richard J. Utz, Resistance to (The New) Medievalism? Comparative
Deliberations on (National) Philology, Mediävalismus, and Mittelalter-Rezeption
in Germany and North America
Ian Wilks, Abelard on Figurative Language and Transferred Meaning
ASMAR 3: Sally McKee, ed. Crossing Boundaries: Issues of Cultural and Individual Identity in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (1999)
The essays collected here have in common the concept of boundaries, which is defined according to discipline, and movement through boundaries. The essays cover a range of topics and periods. The first section consists of literary approaches to boundaries, ranging widely in subject matter from Norman drama to sixteenth-century goodnight ballads. The second section includes mainly historical studies of such topics as social mobility in Geoffrey of Monmouth's twelfth-century History of the Kings of Britain, post-1453 Byzantine identity, and Milanese Renaissance musical genres. Individually and as a group, the essays contribute fresh insights into well-known and some less familiar works of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
Linda Georgianna, Geoffrey of Monmouth's
Historia Regum Britanniae: Lessons in Self- Fashioning for the Bastards of
Britain
Robert L. A. Clark, Eve and Her Audience in the Anglo-Norman Adam
John Damon, "Seinte Cecile" and "Cristes owene knyghtes":
Violence, Resignation, and Resistance in the Second Nun's Tale
Elaine R. Miller, Linguistic Identity in the Middle Ages: The Case
of the Spanish Jews
Emily Steiner, Medieval Documentary Poetics and Langland's Authorial
Identity
Patricia Marby Harrison, Religious Rhetoric as Resistance in Early
Modern Goodnight Ballads
Jami Ake, Mary Wroth's Willow Poetics: Revising Female Desire in
Pamphilia to Amphilanthus
Annabel Patterson, "The human face divine": Identity and
the Portrait from Locke to Chaucer
Jonathan Harris, Common Language and the Common Good: Aspects of
Identity among Byzantine Emigres in Renaissance Italy
Nolan Gasser, Beata et venerabilis Virgo: Music and Devotion in
Renaissance Milan
Elspeth Whitney, Sex, Lies, and Depositions: Pierre de Lancre's
Vision of the Witches' Sabbath
Laura Hunt Yungblut, Straungers and Aliaunts: The "Un-English"
among the English in Elizabethan England
ASMAR 4: Diane Wolfthal, ed. Peace, Negotiation, and Reciprocity: Strategies of Co-existence in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (2000).
Peace was far from a pale, static concept -- a simple lack of violence -- in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Rather, it was at times constructed as a rich and complex, positive and dynamic ideal. The thirteen articles in this volume cover a broad range of disciplines, times, and geographcial areas and explore strategies that were used in the past to resolve conflict and attain peace. They examine events, texts, and images that date from the fifth through the sixteenth centuries, and their authors focus not on Western Europe alone, but also Scandinavia, the Caucausus, and Egypt.This volume rests on the assumption that peace covers a spectrum of situations that connects the personal and the political. Therefore, papers presented here examine not only how nations negotiated peace, but also how individuals did. Similarly, although several essays spotlight those in the seat of power, others explore the situation of those lower on the social hierarchy. Our views about peace and conflict, as this collection makes clear, are shaped in part by the mentalities of the past. Although some peacemaking strategies may be unacceptable to us today -- forced marriages and conversions, for example -- we can learn from other strategies how to transcend or modify various modes of antagonistic thinking.
Michael Herren, Negotiating Settlements
in Half-Christianized Societies: The Case of Early Medieval IrelandLori Eshleman,
Weavers of Peace, Weavers of War
Ryan Lavelle, Towards a Political Contextualization of Peacemaking
and Peace Agreements in Anglo-Saxon England
John Edward Damon, Advisors for Peace in the Reign of Æthelred
Unræd
Jonathan Wilcox, The St. Brice's Day Massacre and Archbishop Wulftsan
Carol Stamatis Pendergast, Outside the Walls: Jurisdiction and Justice
on a Gateway at Anzy-le-Duc
Kirsten M. Christensen, The Conciliatory Rhetoric of Mysticism
in the Correspondence of Heinrich von Nördlingen and Margaretha Ebner
L.S.B. MacCoull, The Rite of the Jar: Apostasy and Reconciliation
in the Medieval Coptic Orthodox Church
Stephen H. Rapp, Jr., Christian Caucasian Dialogues: Glimpses of
Armeno-K)art)velian Relations in Medieval Georgian Historiography
Ben Lowe, A War to End All Wars? Protestant Subversions of Henry
VIII's Final Scottish and French Campaigns (1542-45)
Cynthia Skenazi, Dispositio as an Art of Peace in Ronsard's Poetry
Sheila ffolliott, Make Love, Not War: Imaging Peace through Marriage
in Renaissance France
Noah J. Efron, Common Goods: Jewish and Christian Householder Cultures
in Early Modern Prague
ASMAR 5: Curtis Perry, ed. Material Culture and Cultural Materialisms in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (2001).
The phrase "cultural materialism" names an approach to cultural analysis that interrogates the socio-economic conditions with which artefacts are produced as well as their participation in other ideological and material fields of culture. Disciplines that have traditionally studied cultural artefacts like literature and painting have increasingly focused on the material production and ideological operation of objects once thought of in idealized or purely aesthetic terms. By the same token, historians -- whose work, of necessity, has always tended to deal with the material traces of culture -- have increasingly been willing to consider the social and ideological importance of art. The increasing popularity of this cultural studies approach to the past has in turn spurred investigation into other kinds of materiality. Recent historical and literary scholarship, for example, has become increasingly aware of the ways in which the lived materiality of the human body informs a range of cultural discourses.
Robert Boenig, Musical Instruments
as Iconographical Artifacts in Medieval Poetry
Kathy M. Krause, The Material Erotic: The Clothed and Unclothed
Female Body in the Roman de la Violette
Alan M. Stahl, The Venetian Mint in the Age of the Black Death
Joerg O. Fichte, "For coueitise after cros; þe croun
stant in golde": Money as Matter and Metaphor in Piers Plowman
James H. McGregor, Art and the Illusions of Materiality in Dante
and Boccaccio
Jonathan J. G. Alexander, "The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick
Maker": Images of Urban Labor, Manufacture and Shopkeeping from the Middle
Ages
Joshua Phillips, Staking Claims to Utopia: Thomas More, Fiction,
and Intellectual Property
Gail Kern Paster, The Epistemology of the Water Closet: John Harrington's
Metamorphosis of Ajax and Elizabethan Technologies of Shame
Lisa H. Cooper, Chivalry, Commerce, and Conquest: Heywood's The
Four Prentices of London
Christopher Warley, "The English straine": Absolutism,
Class, and Drayton's Ideas, 1594-1619
R. Malcolm Smuts, Material Culture, Metropolitan Influences and
Moral Authority in Early Modern England
Douglas Bruster, The New Materialism in Renaissance Studies
ASMAR 6: Anne Scott and Cynthia Kosso, eds. Fear and Its Representations in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (2002).
This is a topic that appeals to a wide audience and is particularly of interest today. In the modern world we fear war and terrorism, economic recession, and environmental degradation: these concerns make up a great portion of the fabric of our daily lives. In this volume, the authors raise and try to answer questions about the ways in which individuals, families, and nations five-hundred, one-thousand, or even fifteen-hundred years ago approached the idea of fear. The interdisciplinary nature of this volume provides an analysis of fear from a multitude of perspectives and within a host of secular and religious literature, historical treatises, scholastic works, art, and political accounts. Through its breadth, depth, and interdisciplinary focus, the present volume makes a full contribution to the study of fear for anyone interested in how people in the past have experienced it.
SECTION ONE: Defining the Nature of Fear
Stephen Loughlin, The
Complexity and Importance of timor in Aquinas's Summa Theologiae
L. A. J. R. Houwen, Fear and Instinct in Chaucer's Nun's Priest's
Tale
SECTION TWO: Uses of Fear
Fear and Religion
Janet Robson, Fear
of Falling: Depicting the Death of Judas in Late Medieval Italy
Kimberly Rivers, The Fear of Divine Vengeance: Mnemonic Images as
a Guide to Conscience in the Late Middle Ages
Susan Taylor Snyder, Orthodox Fears: Anti-Inquisitorial Violence
and Defining Heresy
Fear in Politics and Cultural Identity
Elizabeth McLuhan, Evangelico
mucrone: With an Evangelical Sword: Fear as a Weapon in the Early Evangelization
of Gaul
Elaine M. Ragland, Fear, Loathing, and Deadly Rivalry in the Frankish
Polygamous Royal Family
Yoni Garb, Fear and Power in Renaissance Mediterranean Kabbalah
Barry R. Mark, Kabbalistic Tocinofobia: Américo Castro, Limpieza
de Sangre and The Inner Meaning of Jewish Dietary Laws
Fear as a Literary and Dramatic Device
James Fitzmaurice, Fear
of the Supernatural as a "Pleasante and Merry Humour" in Two of
Newcastle's Comedies
Bernd Renner, From Fearsome to Fearful: Panurge's Satirical Waning
SECTION THREE: Individual Responses to Fear
The Fear of Courtly Lovers, Knights, and Poets
Tracy Adams, Christine
de Pizan's Frightened Lovers
Dorsey Armstrong, Gender and Fear: Malory's Lancelot and Knightly
Identity
Albrecht Classen, To Fear or not to Fear, that is the Question:
Oswald von Wolkenstein Facing Death and Enjoying Life: Fifteenth-Century Mentalitätsgeschichte
Reflected in Lyric Poetry
Fear and the Mystic
Steven Fanning, Mitigations
of the Fear of Hell and Purgatory in the Later Middle Ages: Julian of Norwich
and Catherine of Genoa
Claire Banchich, "a hevynly joy in a dredfulle soule":
Julian of Norwich's Articulations of Dread
ASMAR 7: Susan Karant Nunn, ed. Varieties of Devotion in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (2003).
In the modern world, interest in religious devotion is as great as ever. This volume brings together the research of ten scholars into the diverse ways that Europeans expressed their quest for God over more than a millennium, from the formative centuries of Christianity up to the seventeenth century. Topics include women transvestite saints, Monophysite wall-paintings, Anglo-Saxon sainthood and painful martyrdom, Carmelite self-redefinition, the confident authorship of Gautier de Coinci and Matfre Ermengaud, competition between the bishop and a wandering preacher for popular favor in Le Mans, the contemplative philanthropies of the Poor Clares, Chester Nativity-cycle actors' masculinity, Jean Gerson's warm relations with his siblings, and George Herbert's Eucharistic feeling. The authors' profound familiarity with primary sources as well as the influence of current theory makes these essays vibrant and timely.
Leslie S. B. MacCoull, "A Dwelling Place of Christ, a Healing Place of Knowledge": The Non-Chalcedonian Eucharist in Late Antique Egypt and Its Setting
Laila Abdalla, Theology and Culture: Masculinizing the Woman
Peter Dendle, Pain and Saint-Making in Andreas, Bede, and the Old English Lives of St. Margaret
Andreas Rüther, From Hermits to Mendicant Friars: Continuity and Change in the Carmelite Order
Holly Flora, A Book for Poverty 's Daughters: Gender and Devotion in Paris Bibliothèque Nationale Ital. 115
John S. Ott, Authority, Heresy, and Popular Devotion: Le Mans (1116) Reconsidered
Michelle Bolduc, The Poetics of Authorship and Vernacular Religious Devotion
Christina M. Fitzgerald, Of Magi and Men: Christ's Nativity and Masculine Community in the Chester Drama Cycle
Brian Patrick McGuire, Patterns of Male Affectivity in the Late Middle Ages: The Case of Jean Gerson
Ryan Netzley, "Take and Taste": Sacramental Physiology, Eucharistic Experience, and George Herbert's The Temple
ASMAR 8: Ian Moulton, ed. Reading and Literacy in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (2004).
It is not surprising that the development of the internet and related electronic technologies has coincided with an academic interest in the history of reading. Using and transmitting texts in new ways, scholars have become increasingly aware of the precise ways in which manuscripts and printed books transmitted texts to early modern readers. This volume collects nine essays on reading and literacy in Europe from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Topics include: the function of marginalia in vernacular medieval manuscripts; the trope of reading in the fourteenth century; the definition of literacy in early modern England; marginalia and reading practices in early modern Italy; revision of medieval texts in the Renaissance; the prevalence of translated French poetry in sixteenth-century England; the use of poems as props in the plays of Shakespeare; the private reading of the playscripts of masques; and early-modern women's reading practices. These essays demonstrate the energy and excitement of the rapidly developing field of the history of reading. They will appeal to those interested in European cultural history, the transition from manuscript to print culture, the history of literacy, and the history of the book.
Martha Dana Rust, Revertere! Penitence, Marginal Commentary, and the Recursive Path of Right Reading
Burt Kimmelman, The Trope of Reading in the Fourteenth Century
Michael Ullyot, English Auctores and Authorial Readers: Early Modernizations of Chaucer and Lydgate
A. E. B. Coldiron, A Survey of Verse Translations from French Printed Between Caxton and Tottel
Brian Richardson, Inscribed Meanings: Authorial Self-Fashioning and Readers' Annotations in Sixteenth-Century Italian Printed Books
Kathryn DeZur, "Vaine Books" and Early Modern Women Readers
Frederick Kiefer, Poems as Props in Love's Labor's Lost and Much Ado About Nothing
Lauren Shohet, The Masque as Book
Heidi Brayman Hackel, Rhetorics and Practices of Illiteracy or the Marketing of Illiteracy
ASMAR 12: James Helfers, ed. Multicultural Europe and Cultural Exchange in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (2005).
Contemporary criticism focuses on contested issues at the borders and in the interstices of cultures. Medieval and Early Modern European culture, previously conceived as monolithic, is now being reconceived as heterogenous, a site of tensions, contest, accomodation, and subversion. The essays in this volume describe a Europe that is multicultural in fact, and trace the exchanges between cultural groups, subcultures and dominant cultures, and between individuals and the cultures that they inhabit.
Joshua C. Birk, From Borderlands to Borderlines: Narrating the Past of Twelfth-Century Sicily
Eric Dursteler, Neighbors: Venetians and Ottomans in Early Modern Galata
Shelley Karen Perlove, "Scorched in the Wilderness": A Portrait of the Venetian Rabbi Leone da Modena
Paul Kaplan, Jewish Artists and Images of Black Africans in Renaissance Venice
Karl Fugelso, Multiculturalism in Italian Gothic Architecture
Mary Blaine Campbell, Maculophobia: Blackness, Whiteness, and Cosmetics in Early Imperial Britain
Scott Manning Stevens, "Unaccommodated Man": Essaying the New World in Early Modern Europe
Bernd Renner, "Clement devise dedans Venise": Marot's Satirical Poetry in Exile
Robert Palazzo, The Veneration of the Sacred Foreskin(s) of Baby Jesus: A Documented Analysis
ASMAR 13: Laura H. Hollengreen, ed. Translatio, or Transmission of Culture (2008)
1. Mary Carruthers Mechanisms for the Transmission of Culture: The Role of 'Place' in the Arts of Memory
2. Rebeca Helfer Arts of Recollection and Cultural Transmission
3. Rhonda L. McDaniel Interpreting the Translator: Ælfric, His Sources, and His Critics
4. Damien Kempf From East to West: Translating the Acts of John by Prochorus in Metz in the Thirteenth Century
5. Margaret Parker Spain is Different: The Untold Story of the Translatio of the Passio of St. Catherine of Alexandria
6. Hans Peter Broedel Gratuitous Examples and the Grateful Dead: Appropriation and Negotiation of Traditional Narratives in Medieval Exemplary Ghost Stories
7. Wendy A. Matlock Vernacular Theology in the Disputacione betwyx the Body and Wormes
8. Marijane Osborn and Harry Enfijian The Iconographic Parodies Bracketing Chaucer’s Summoner’s Tale
9. Janice Hawes The Land Spirit’s Rebellion: Icelandic Independence and Religious Conflict in Bárðar saga
10. Jonathan Good Richard II and the Cults of Saints George and Edward the Confessor
11. Ken Fullam Decoding and Deciphering the Meanings Served at Late Medieval Feasts
12. Charlotte Ward The Packaging of Spanish Literature for an English-Language Audience
13. Geoffrey Gust Worlds Apart? Chaucerian (Re)Constructions in Britain and America
ASMAR 18: Timothy J. Tomasik and Juliann M. Vitullo, eds. At the Table: Metaphorical and Material Cultures of Food in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (2007).
Timothy J. Tomasik and Juliann M. Vitullo, Introduction
Fabio Lopez Lazaro, Sweet Food of Knowledge: Botany, Food, and Empire in the Early Modern Spanish Kingdoms
Paul Hartel, "Take a Long Spoon": Culinary Practices in the English Civil War
Marianne Kalinke, Table Decorum and the Quest for a Bride in Clari Saga
Christine F. Cooper Rompato, Stuck in Chichevache's Maw: Digesting the Example of (Im)Patient Griselda in John Lydgate's "A Mumming at Hertford" and "Bycorne and Chychevache"
Melissa Walter, Drinking from Skulls and the Politics of Incorporation in Early Stuart Drama
William Bradford Smith, Food and Deception in the Discourse on Heresy and Witchcraft in Bamberg
Christina Lee, Þær wæs symbla cyst: Food in the Funerary Rites of the Early Anglo-Saxons
L. B. Ross, Beyond Eating: Political and Personal Significance of the entrements at the Banquets of the Burgundian Court
Bernd Renner, From the "bien yvres" to messere Gaster: The Syncretism of Rabelaisian Banquets
Timothy J. Tomasik, Translating Taste in the Vernacular Editions of Platina's De honesta voluptate et valetudine
Michel Jeanneret, "Ma salade et ma muse": On Renaissance Vegetarianism
Forthcoming volumes
ASMAR 19:
Anne Scott and Cynthia Kosso, eds. Poverty and Prosperity, the Rich and the Poor in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
(2006 Conference)
ASMAR 23 (Forthcoming 2009):
Frederick Kiefer, ed. Masculinities and Femininities in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
(2007 Conference)
ASMAR 28:
Robert Sturgess, ed. Law and Sovereignty in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
(2008 Conference)
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